HOLY COW!  I live in Huntsville.  Awesome!  Hey Cuomo: SUCK IT!

Yellowhammer News Article

High level sources have informed Yellowhammer News that Remington, one of the world’s largest gun manufacturers, will on Monday join Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley in announcing that they are moving jobs from their largest manufacturing facility in New York to Alabama.

Remington’s Ilion, NY plant currently employees around 1,200 people. It will likely stay open, but with a greatly reduced workforce. Sources say the company will be bringing over 2,000 jobs with them to Alabama with an estimated impact on Alabama’s economy of $87 million.

According to Remington’s website, the company designs, produces and sells sporting goods products for the hunting and shooting sports markets, as well as military, government and law enforcement markets. Founded in 1816 in upstate New York, the Company is one of the nation’s oldest continuously operating manufacturers. Remington is the only U.S. manufacturer of both firearms and ammunition products and one of the largest domestic producers of shotguns and rifles. The Company distributes its products throughout the U.S. and in over 55 foreign countries.

Remington first began considering relocating after the New York legislature passed the Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement (SAFE) Act in response to the tragic shootings in Newtown, Conn. In addition to banning magazines that contain more than seven rounds and requiring instant background checks on ammo purchases,  the NY SAFE Act broadened the definition of so-called “assault weapons” to include a wide range of guns, including the Bushmaster, which was being manufactured at Remington’s New York plant.

Almost half the states in the country have made pitches to Remington, included Arizona, Oklahoma, Michigan, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. But in the end, the company chose Huntsville, Ala.

Remington

The optics could not be worse for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who told WCNY radio host Susan Arbetter about a month ago that “extreme conservatives” who are “right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay,” have “no place in the state of New York.”

Gov. Bentley and Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard both immediately responded to Cuomo’s comments.

“In Alabama we strongly support and uphold our great U.S. Constitution on which our nation and our states were founded,” Bentley told Yellowhammer. “The Constitution serves to protect individual Freedoms. Among them are those guaranteed in the Second Amendment, which protects the right of the people to keep and bear Arms. We will protect the Freedoms of individuals and welcome any one or any company to Alabama to discover as so many have, that we are a pro-business state filled with good, hardworking people.”

“If he doesn’t want hard working pro-life and pro-2nd Amendment people in his state, we will gladly take them here in Alabama,” Speaker Hubbard added.

It looks like that’s exactly what is happening.

Yellowhammer will have full coverage of the announcement on Monday.

triple dupe.

first dupe: http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1592872_Remington_Firearms_to_build_a_facility_in_Huntsville__AL.html

Finally. That's great news. They need more room anyway.


Bigfeet

http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1592785_Remington_Outdoor_Company_to_announce_major_expansion_to_Huntsville_AL.html

http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1592872_Remington_Firearms_to_build_a_facility_in_Huntsville__AL.html

Wow a third plant!

Excellent news!

I'm sure that Gov. Cumhole's new business incentive programs will pick up the slack!

Alright, I'm excited.  Fuck searching on this news!  It needs to be posted one million times.  
If it was a Justin Beaver thread reposted 30 times I'd be pissed too but it's not.  This is a defeat for Cuomo and the other fuckers in New York and elsewhere.

Oh, and FBHO.

and thats on the short list for retirement.
nice.

It's a great place.  Lots of pretty country around here, North and East of Huntsville if you want someplace out in the country but close enough to a town.

This. It's important that people see this kinda thing happening.

exactly what I want.

$87 million, huh?  

THANK YOU.

Oh, and FBHO.  

Nah man. Come to TN. We have Beretta and Barrett. We have air assault and other swoopy shit. I want to pick your brain.

Since all the gun makers are moving to the South we should invade the North. Turn-about is fair play.

How hard is it to remove the ink from your fingers when you apply for a CCW?
Alabama- Yeah, I pay 10 bucks for my CCW, but no fingerprints, classes, blah, blah.

Tennessee


got no time fo all dat!

Theres nothing up there but cold and damn yankees. We should build a wall and keep them out. I propose starting that wall between Ashland and Fredricksburg. Unfortunately that leaves Mt Vernon and Arlington House and Cemetery behind enemy lines but lets face it Nova is lost.

There are a few moving in with the westerners.

Bring it as there are some Yankees who are ready to stand with their southern brothers of another mother

This makes me happy.

Yep.

Sweet, was going to Savage over a Rem 700 action in the future... now I'll wait until I see AL on the receiver.

I've had both permits. I don't miss Tennessee's.

I have some extra mags to help with the fight.  

Great news for Alabama. For once.

The usual is pretty bad.

Good one.............

tri-cities is also on the list.

but if you think I will go anywhere west of nashville you are crazy.

Not that you need further encouragement and not that I am telling you anything you don't already know, but there's a ton of work for retired .mil guys here. It's a really nice area.

Cumhole will just deny they are leaving altogether.

In other news Remington will now manufacture yogurt in upstate New York.  

Fuck. Now those assholes are gonna clog up the Robert Trent Jones golf trail.

Wonderful, another weapon manufacturer in the south in case we have to rise again.

Commrade Cuomo eats poo poo.

Dupe or not, good news needs repeating.  Thanks for sharing.  I look forward to seeing the "official" announcement posted several times as well!

 

First thing that popped out to me.

Wait for me to move down there first

Whatever  ... I had to work overtime today so not only didn't I miss the memo, I also missed the E-Mail and the other two threads.

Damn, just might consider moving back.

I got 3 - 4 more inches of snow this morning.
Driving in The Snow would mess you up so badly....


PS: Fuck Il Duce

 

Great, now I have to worry about what will happen to plant if it ever snows in AL.

good

Me too.  I still thing I'd pick Tennessee if I were to move to the southeast.

 

We're only 1.5 hours north of Birmingham, just north of Huntsville in case you want to drive on paved roads, wear shoes, and stuff...








Good news for Huntsville, as their economy has suffered in recent years due to the cutbacks.

because y'all forgot about that shit the first time around, didn't you?

Speeding up the conversion from production to cost creation. The sooner NY gets flagged as -money the better. The *&^%ing politicians create nothing but money sinks. +taker, -producer

Ink? Does anyone still do fingerprints in ink?

I get fingerprinted pretty often for work, I've been fingerprinted several times over the last 18 years for carry permits and I haven't had fingerprints taken using ink since my first permit in 1996.